“Dolly the dolphin died of a broken heart. At least that’s how Malcolm Brenner sees it.

Some would call Brenner, who had sex with Dolly more than four decades ago, a pervert or an animal abuser or, at the very least, a damaged man. But to this day, Brenner, who is now the subject of a documentary, describes the encounter as a beautiful, almost spiritual experience.

The two met in 1970 when the New College of Florida student was on his first freelance photography assignment. He was supposed to take pictures for a book about Sarasota’s Floridaland—one of those hokey roadside attractions that populated the Sunshine State before multimillion-dollar theme parks pushed them out. Soon, however, he was sidetracked by the dolphin.

Dolly swam to the other side of the tank when the unfamiliar human with horn-rimmed glasses and shoulder-length curls first jumped in. She eventually came around, says Brenner, who photographed the dolphin for nine months. Once, as he was rubbing her back, Dolly flipped over to present her genital slit. Later, she started rubbing her teeth on the photographer’s arm in what he describes as an erotic way. When he wouldn’t give her what she wanted, Dolly would retaliate by pushing him 12 feet underwater.”

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John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola), Dave Rubin (http://www.twitter.com/rubinreport) and Hannah Cranston (https://twitter.com/hannahcranston_) of The Young Turks discuss.

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